I’ll start this with a big disclaimer: I’m not you. What I think is cool to self-host might seem uninteresting and vice-versa.
But I’m always interested to see what others are hosting. Not long ago, LowEndTalk member @vitobotta started a great thread listing what he self-hosted and invited others to share their lists. It reminded me of the venerable Awesome-Selfhosted list on GitHub, which has hundreds and hundreds of apps in dozens of categories to choose from.
Here’s some I use:
- Monica – a “personal CRM” that allows you to track birthdays, events, calls, contacts, etc. among your friends, family, and personal life.
- Uptime Kuma – a great and easy to use monitoring app
- Change detection – lets me know when certain pages have changed.
- Jupyter – a really nice research notebook. The world is drowning in note taking and note management solutions, but this one has an embedded Python engine.
- Serpbear – to track how various sites are performing with various keywords.
A couple I’m planning to try soon:
- Snipe-IT – a poor man’s ServiceNow CMDB
- ExcaliDraw – a charting/drawing app
Some of these I self-host, and others I host on PikaPods, which has many apps.
What are you hosting in 2026? Let us know in the comments below!
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Raindog308 is a longtime LowEndTalk community administrator, technical writer, and self-described techno polymath. With deep roots in the *nix world, he has a passion for systems both modern and vintage, ranging from Unix, Perl, Python, and Golang to shell scripting and mainframe-era operating systems like MVS. He’s equally comfortable with relational database systems, having spent years working with Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
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